376 



very little inferior to the Polynesian natives of the most favoured islands 

 of the Pacific. 



Genus Omithichnites*. 



The following impressions and casts of impressions of foot-prints were dis- 

 covered at various depths beneath the actual surface, in quarries of laminated 

 flag-stones, belonging to the Triassic or New Red Sandstone epoch in geology, 

 near the banks of the river Connecticut, and have been described by Prof. Hitch- 

 cock in the 'American Journal of Science and Arts,' January 1836, by whom the 

 series w 7 as presented to the Royal College of Surgeons. 



1594. A cast of a slab with a single impression of the Omithichnites minimus, 



Hitchcock. 



1595. A slab with two impressions of the Omithichnites minusculus, Hitchcock. 



1596. A slab with the relief of two impressions, one twice the size of the other, 



of the Omithichnites parvulus, Hitchcock. 



1597^ A slab with an impression of the Omithichnites gracilis, Hitchcock. 



1598. A slab with an impression of the Omithichnites tenuis, Hitchcock. 



1599. A slab with the relief of an impression of the Omithichnites crassus, 

 Hitchcock. 



1600. A portion of the triassic slate with part of an impression of the Omithich- 

 nites tetradactyhis, Hitchcock. 



1601. A cast of a slab with an impression of the Omithichnites tetradactylus, 



Hitchcock. 



1602. A portion of the triassic slate with parts of five impressions of the Omi- 



thichnites Deanii, Hitchcock. 



1603. A cast of a slab with the relief of two impressions, interfering with each 



other, of the Omithichnites Deanii, Hitchcock. 



* upvis a bird, iyv° s afoot-print, a generic name devised by Prof. Hitchcock, in reference rather to 

 the fossilised foot-prints than to the supposed birds by which they v.ere made. 



